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Letters to the Editor Monday

The Happiness Clause in our Constitution cannot be met without adequate attention to the maladies of our physical existence.

A chicken and a dozen eggs doesn’t pay for it any more. Medical bills can bankrupt individuals and families.

Medicare had the power to challenge my two joint replacement hospital bills for $60,000 each, with a settlement for $12,000 each.

An individual cannot do this.

I once took 50 applications for USDA financing for family housing, and got only one approved. The major culprit ruining the credit worthiness of the majority of applicants was medical charges that they could not pay.

Without adequate insurance, they had no negotiating power.

In Thursday’s editorial in the Morning News, you appeared to be rejoicing with the heading, “Obamacare meltdown.”

You and those that you support in Congress have not offered a substitute that would insure health care for the entire population, 30 million or more without insurance.

You and those you support have put every obstacle imaginable to try to insure its failure.

Your editorial chose to ignore the letter from Stanley Harris in the letters section.

He reminded you that more than one half of the states refused to set up their own exchanges. Yet their citizens need insurance coverage.

This has made the computer set-up more complicated and harder to predict the numbers coming through.

The states that set up their own exchanges have experienced much smoother enrollments.

Mr. Harris is right. The refusal to set up the exchanges in the states with Republican governors was a tactic to put roadblocks in the path of a smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

Despite your glee that Obamacare is melting down, it must not happen.

There are too many families whose constitutional right to happiness depends on adequate health care that does not bankrupt them.

JIMMIE SNOOKS

Springfield

TV losing viewers because of bias

CBS, NBC and ABC networks used to probe honestly into events and political actions to protect and inform the public.

In recent years, those networks and smiling anchors ought to be ashamed for their lack of honesty in probing the truths about our present federal administration from the president to his appointees, like our attorney general who is the top law enforcer, but ignores the Constitution, to the former Secretary of State who failed related to Benghazi, and to the IRS debacle, and now the Affordable Health Care Act, which is unaffordable.

It refuses to take any responsibility and pleads the 5th.

Finally, since the debacle of the Obamacare rollout, these networks finally are saying something.

Not much, but finally something truthful.

They are doing this because it is so obvious to the American people that it is an absolutely terrible law.

It’s hurting people by causing the cancellation of many insurance policies, by costing more and hurting rather than helping the majority of Americans.

The president is seen saying over and over you can keep your health care coverage.

Period.

This president is either incompetent or a plain liar.

When you see debates on this law between those who are supporters and those who are opposed, you can look into the eyes of the person and see that they are lying straight out.

But the above mentioned networks are now only giving negative reports, because it has become so blatantly clear in their bias and lack of good reporting that they are losing their viewers.

People want to know the truth.

These networks better wake up and try to be honest for a change.

JAMES R. DUVALL

Savannah

Making everyone poor is wrong kind of equality

The “Progressive Party” (formerly Democrat), now just another name for socialism, is selling, and many are buying, something called “equality” that they do not define.

A short course of world history, however, tells us that socialist countries are totalitarian by their nature, and that the only “equality” shared by their citizens is an equal share of the poverty and squalor that socialism itself creates.

This is the situation that causes jails to overflow into concentration camps and cemeteries to spill over into burial pits.

The word “Nazi” was a political nickname for the “National Socialist German Workers Party.” It was a form of socialism established by Adolf Hitler, which enabled him to hold absolute power over all Germans. He caused the slaughter of millions of innocent humans, and due to his lust for power he brought about World War II.

His main goal was to categorize human races and make them all subservient to the German race. I wonder what he would have done had he won WWII?

Freedom and opportunity go hand in hand and is never fully realized until it’s taken away.

Many of our young are taught that the rich in our country steal from the poor.

Does this mean that a poor person doesn’t have the same opportunity that the rich man had when he was poor?

Is making the claim that the “rich steal from the poor” more Progressive/Socialist guile?

HERMAN L. CRANMAN

Savannah

Another attack on the Second Amendment

Our president has issued an executive order to overturn the will of Congress.

The Congress passed a law 17 years ago to ban federal funds being used by the Centers for Disease Control in matters concerning firearms control.

Do you think he cares about the Second Amendment?

He says his signature trumps our Congress.

Another development is underway to attack the Second Amendment. The anti-firearms crowd has created another front group called “Third Way.”

They have come up with some phony poll data to help their cause.

If today the people of the U.S.A. could vote, I believe the results would show our citizens favor the Second Amendment.

Even the Democrats are scared to back President Obama on the firearms battle.